Hi, Users don't need the 'Administrator' role for seeing the 'System Health Dashboard' page. Actually, this page is visible for users having the 'View only' role only, too. ... View more

Hi Goody, I don't think there is any specific reason. File this as an Idea (aka 'enhancement request') in the Ideas area of the Community, please. In case you are working in an on-prem FNMS environment, as a workaround, you have the option to build a SQL query that includes group properties like 'Organizational Unit', 'Cost Center' and 'Location', and expose the results of this query as a report into the FNMS UI. ... View more

I suggest reviewing the following training courses (PDF files) in the 'Flexera Learning Center', please: FlexNet Manager Implementation & Administration - Business Adapter Practice Guide FlexNet Manager Suite Technical Install & Admin Self-Study Course - 1.2.7-Import Business Data with Beacons ... View more

Hi, Doing an in-place upgrade of the Operating System from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2019 is not recommended for any FNMS application server. On possible migration path would be: On your old Windows 2012 FNMS Server, take a backup of all relevant FNMS configuration files and customizations, especially all data in the \ProgramData\Flexera Software folder. Shut down the old application server Install a fresh Windows 2019 Server, give it the name of the old FNMS application server, put it on the same domain and give it the same IP address. Make sure a valid certificate is installed for HTTPS, too. Install the same version of FNMS you have been using on the old FNMS application server. This might be an opportunity for migrating to the latest FNMS release and run database migration scripts before you install the FNMS software, but you can also do this later. When installing the FNMS application server, instead of installing new empty SQL Server databases, use the FNMS databases that exist already . Once your new application server is up and running, make sure that all customizations are restored from the backup that you took in step #1. After you confirmed that your new application server is working fine, you can archive or delete the old application server (if this is a VM), or decommission or re-use the old hardware.  ... View more

Also check the latest version of the following LOG files on your FNMS Batch server for any error messages, please: C:\ProgramData\FlexeraSoftware\Compliance\Logging\BatchProcessScheduler\BatchProcessor.log C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Compliance\Logging\ComplianceReader\importer-[xxxxxxx]-[xxx].log Try to manually trigger the 'Inventory import and license reconcile' task from Task Scheduler. After triggering this task, you should observe a new LOG file being created in the 'ComplianceReader' log folder. In case the ComplianceImport is not triggered, there might be something wrong with the Microsoft Message Queue configuration. Uninstalling Microsoft Message Queueing, followed by re-installing Message Queuing and re-running the FNMS configuration PowerShell scripts on the FNMS application server usually fixes this sort of problem. ... View more

This error can appear if you link a license to a purchase order, and manually edit the 'Assigned entitlements' column, instead of using the recommended way of processing purchases orders to licenses from the 'Unprocessed Purchases' view. You can find more information on this topic in the new FlexeraONE documentation in the 'Linking a License to This Purchase' chapter. ... View more

Hi Rob, For Windows devices, SCCM retrieves the Operating System (OS) language as WMI evidence. In case you are working in an on-prem FNMS environmnt, you can extract the OS language from the [FNMSCompliance] database using SQL, and build a report based on the output of the following statement: SELECT iwe.ComplianceComputerID , cc.ComputerName , we.PropertyValue AS [LanguageCode] FROM [ComplianceComputer] cc JOIN [InstalledWMIEvidence] iwe ON iwe.ComplianceComputerID = cc.ComplianceComputerID JOIN [WMIEvidence] we ON we.WMIEvidenceID = iwe.WMIEvidenceID WHERE we.ClassName = 'Win32_OperatingSystem' AND we.PropertyName = 'OSLanguage' The [LanguageCode] column contains the decimal LCID value for the language. As an example, 1033 means 'English (United States,' (en-us). ... View more

Hi Chris, I was looking for the command line parameters to use when using 'BatchProcessTaskConsole' for running the 'Reconcile' part of the ComplianceImport. ... View more

Can I use these options when scheduling the process in a background task similar to the standard command: BatchProcessTask run InventoryImport   ... View more

Hi Dan, Seems you are using the FNMS <service account> for scanning vSphere servers. Asking the obvious first: Did you configure the service account with the password for this account in the "Password Manager" on the Beacon that actually performs the vCenter scanning? Also, when enabling the frequent (30 minutes) scanning of vCenter servers for IBM PVU, you can either select Known vCenter or OVM Manager Servers, OR Select individual targets from your FNMS environment for scanning. Make sure that the correct Beacon is assigned to each target containing vSphere servers, to prevent Beacons that do not have the vSphere account configured in "Password Manager" from attempting to scan the vSphere server. ... View more

Hi, My assumption is that you mean FNMS users (called 'Accounts' in the FNMS UI)?  For FNMS users, in case you work in an on-prem environment, you can run the following SQL statement to get the date when a user has been active for the last time: SELECT co.ComplianceOperatorID ,co.OperatorLogin ,co.OperatorName ,co.IsEnabled ,coa.LastActive FROM [ComplianceOperator] co LEFT JOIN [ComplianceOperatorAudit] coa ON coa.ComplianceOperatorID = co.[ComplianceOperatorID] There is a very comprehensive KB article on how usage (user activity) data can be collected using the Flexera agent, too. ... View more

Hi Sabrina, You cannot convert the output of a stored procedure into a SQL view. However, you can simply convert the output of the Table Valued Function (TVF) that I provided on 7/2 into a view. Just use: CREATE VIEW View_ReportlocationconsumptionsMSTVF AS ( SELECT * FROM [dbo].[ReportlocationconsumptionsMSTVF] (NULL) )   ... View more

Hi Sabrina, The following SQL joins FNMS inventories with users and user domains and returns inventories without any location, together with the user assigned to the inventory and with the Windows domain of that user. ;WITH cteCompplianceComputers(ComplianceComputerID, ComputerName, UserID) AS ( SELECT cc.ComplianceComputerID , cc.ComputerName , ISNULL(cc.AssignedUserID, cc.CalculatedUserID) AS UserID FROM [ComplianceComputer] cc WHERE cc.LocationID IS NULL ) SELECT ComplianceComputerID , ComputerName , cu.UserName , cd.FlatName AS WindowsDomainName FROM cteCompplianceComputers ccc JOIN [ComplianceUser] cu ON cu.ComplianceUserID = ccc.UserID JOIN [ComplianceDomain] cd ON cd.ComplianceDomainID = cu.ComplianceDomainID If you are able to link Windows domains to FNMS locations, you can use this as the basis for building an UPDATE statement that sets the 'LocationID' property for Inventories in the [ComplianceComputer] table. Before updating the location of your inventories, make sure that the output of the SELECT statement above correctly reflects the locations that you want to assign to your inventories, please. ... View more